Powdered wombat guts and other sources of feelings of wellbeing
Posted in Misc on Aug 21st, 2008
The New York Times has a fine article on the microbial forensics that “finally solved the anthrax puzzle.” The article doesn’t say that the detective work involved depended entirely on a natural phenomenon known as evolution.
Had Dr.Ivins not committed suicide prior to being arrested and charged with sending the anthrax laden messages we might have [...]
Posted in Misc on Jan 24th, 2008
No sooner had I written about the universe giving us the flagellum than Craig Venter, given to us by the universe, has announced that artificial life — or at least a first synthetic genome — is almost here. Perhaps we’ll need to add a branch back to the family tree of life! Or start [...]
Posted in Misc on Dec 9th, 2007
There’s a fine article in the New Yorker about retroviruses and their role in human evolution. It explains why we don’t lay eggs any more, among other things. And the explanation is beautiful and elegant.
The idea that paleovirology will shed light on our evolutionary past is a blast. That we carry a lot of DNA [...]
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